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Welcoming Dr Cathy Smith to the Department
01 May 2020We are delighted to welcome Dr Cathy Smith to the Department this week.
Cities are at centre of coronavirus pandemic
23 Apr 2020Cities are at centre of coronavirus pandemic - understanding this can help build a sustainable, equal future
Dr David Hilling MBE
15 Apr 2020The Department is saddened to report the death of Dr David Hilling, MBE, on 27th March, aged 85.
Academics call on world policy makers to rethink wildfire policies
07 Feb 2020A policy brief led by academics at Royal Holloway is calling for governments across the world to rethink their wildfire policies, following the increase in severe wildfires over the last decade
Mobile Museum research webpage goes live online
12 Dec 2019An overview of the three year Mobile Museum research project is now live. The project, which is a collaboration between Royal Holloway and Kew Gardens explored the movement of objects in and out of Economic Botany Collection at Kew museum since its creation over 150 years ago.
Royal Holloway academic awarded prestigious five-year grant from European Research Council
11 Dec 2019The European Research Council (ERC) has announced today that Professor Harriet Hawkins, Co-Director of the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway has been awarded a prestigious five-year Consolidator Grant, worth 1.95m Euros to help researchers understand underground environments and the opportunities they provide for us in the future.
Drinking water for up to 1.9 billion people globally is at threat from climate change
10 Dec 2019Glaciologist from Royal Holloway on research team that has found water resource systems derived from mountain glaciers are under threat
Policy Brief
05 Dec 2019Informing fire policy and biodiversity conservation
Leverhulme centre for wildfire research launched
26 Nov 2019Royal Holloway has a lead role in world's first centre to address wildfire challenges from a global perspective.
Cities don’t have to copy hipster trends to prosper – they can embrace what makes them unique
31 Oct 2019Many cities are looking to change their fortunes, through urban regeneration programmes.
Commercial and recreational drone use in the UK
15 Oct 2019Dr Anna Jackman contributes as Specialist Adviser to House of Commons Inquiry on ‘Commercial and recreational drone use in the UK’.
Enough: The architecture of degrowth
13 Sept 2019Dr Cecile Sachs Olsen is one of the chief curators of Oslo Architecture Triennale, the Nordic region’s biggest architecture festival. The Triennale opens on September 26th .